In Renaissance period, religion threatened science evolution, this is a reverse era which we are currently living in, where science threatens religion. Science is in a high speed, innovations and breaks through are happening in various domains making news papers headlines.
When science makes a break through, the entire humanity feels kind of relief, but we are not told about their down sides.
people are excited every time when science takes us to the next level. When scientists make these breaks through, don't they know what will happen in few years or they just chose to hide the other side of the story? In the academy of science, the code of ethic states that scientists should tell the truth, but we are all surprise with what science can do at the end of the day. They rely on present results, and assuring patients that every thing is OK, but this is not what happened in the in the field of medicine, in cardiology department.
Scientists came up with an anti-attack drugs in early 1980. There is nothing which could prove that the drugs could turn killing people. Scientists later realize after one year alone 56,000 were killed. We can learn much through this.
http://discovermagazine.com
Freedman, David H. " Why scientists studies are so often wrong: the streetlight effect" discovermagazine.July-august 2010.
You make a really good point. Scientists are professionally responsible for looking at the ethical implications of their discoveries.
ReplyDeleteA lot of times, this simply doesn't happen and that needs to change.